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Mesa, also called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications. Mesa translates these specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers.
Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is a compiler for the C, C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX programming languages by Microsoft.MSVC is proprietary software; it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of Visual Studio and made available in both trialware and freeware forms.
Brian Paul receiving the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software from Richard Stallman. Brian E. Paul is a computer programmer who originally wrote and maintained the source code for the open source Mesa graphics library until 2012, and is still active in the project.
In the middle: the FOSS stack, composed out of DRM & KMS driver, libDRM and Mesa 3D.Right side: Proprietary drivers: Kernel BLOB and User-space components. nouveau (/ n uː ˈ v oʊ /) is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.
3DLABS Inc. Ltd. was a fabless semiconductor company.It was founded by Yavuz Ahıska and Osman Kent in 1994 with headquarters in San Jose, California. [1] It originally developed the GLINT and PERMEDIA [1] high-end graphics chip technology that was used on many of the world's leading computer graphics cards in the CAD and DCC markets, including its own Wildcat and Oxygen cards.
Softimage 3D 3.8 SP1 January 1999 First release by Avid Technology, Plus & Performance options Softimage 3D 3.8 SP2 August 1999 Mental Ray 2.1, Surface Continuity Manager, DropPoints & SlidePoints, GoWithTheFlow Softimage 3D 3.9 March 2000 Improved envelope weighting, updated GUI: Softimage 3D 3.9.1 May 2000 Softimage 3D 3.9.2 December 2000 ...
COLLADA (for 'collaborative design activity') is an interchange file format for interactive 3D applications. It is managed by the nonprofit technology consortium, the Khronos Group, and has been adopted by ISO as a publicly available specification, ISO/PAS 17506.
3DNow! is a deprecated extension to the x86 instruction set developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It adds single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions to the base x86 instruction set, enabling it to perform vector processing of floating-point vector operations using vector registers.